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Honorary Doctorate from Merlin’s Alma Mater
Merlin D. Tuttle at time of graduation from Andrews University 1964 Back in 1964 Merlin graduated from Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology....
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Amazing woolly bats revisited
A year ago Merlin and I had the wonderful privilege of joining Caroline and Michael Schöner to photographically document their research discoveries of tiny woolly bats living in pitcher plants. To read...
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Bat houses help rice farmers in Spain
We would like to highlight a recent study of exceptional importance to all who care about conserving bats. As one who has long promoted the potential benefits of attracting bats to artificial roosts,...
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More Misleading Information about Bats & Disease–A Call to Action!
A comparison of the striking difference between good vs bad portrayal of flying foxes. Image credit: USDA Please join Merlin in protesting misleading claims of bats as major spreaders of disease by...
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Merlin’s Update on The Wildlife Society’s Misleading Bat Story
A Little red flying fox (Pteropus scapulatus), one of the many species harmed by needlessly scary stories. When Editor Nancy Sasavage politely defended their story as accurate and justified, she...
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“The Pollinator” by Artist Rhea Groepper Pettit
Painting by Rhea Groepper Pettit Rhea Groepper Pettit is an artist with “a passion for earth’s residents: people and other species.” She loves bats and has used some of Merlin’s photographs as a...
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The Bats of Trinidad and Tobago, A Field Guide and Natural History
Bats of Trinidad and Tobago is one of the finest books thus far published about bats. It is thoroughly researched, provides comprehensive coverage of one of the world’s richest bat faunas and is...
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Bat Book Makes Amazon’s Top 10 List for October
Merlin’s new book, The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World’s Most Misunderstood Mammals, as reviewed by 12 editors, received a 5-star rating and was picked by Amazon as one of its 10...
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An Organic Farmer’s Experience with Bat Houses
View from above prior to roof attachment. The sealed-in ceiling between the roof and roosting crevices is for enhanced thermal stability. Nearly 20 years ago, Frank Bibin, a Georgian pecan grower...
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Good press for bats!
Hip hip hooray, more good press for bats! First the Wall Street Journal did a glowing review of Merlin’s book, “The Secret Lives of Bats,” and it made Amazon’s Top Ten of the Month list; then our...
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Progress for bats–a call to action!
In its February 8, 2014 issue, New Scientist published one of the worst scare stories ever titled, Contagion: Hordes of deadly diseases are lurking in bats and sometimes jumping to people. Can we...
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Scary bat story requires prompt response
Grossly exaggerated stories attempting to link bats to dread diseases, generate readership and grants but divert attention from far higher priorities at great harm to environmental and human health....
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“Bats in the Slats” by Thomas R. Ryan
92-year-old Tom Ryan is our latest Bat Fan! He’s also the author of a new children’s book titled Bats in the Slats. Written like a Dr. Seuss poem, Grampa Buzz teams up with a family of bats under his...
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Photographing North America’s Rarest Bat
An endangered Florida bonneted bat, America’s rarest bat, once thought to be extinct. America’s rarest bat, the endangered Florida bonneted bat (Eumops floridanus), was once relatively common. It often...
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Ebola: Bats Prematurely Blamed
Ebola: Bats Prematurely Blamed By Merlin Tuttle If public health concerns were based on actual threats to human mortality, diseases speculated to be spread by bats would take a distant back seat. Even...
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“Bats and Viruses” Book Review by Merlin Tuttle
Bats and Viruses, edited by Lin-Fa Wang and Christopher Cowled, provides the first summary of current knowledge on how bats and viruses interact. It is an invaluable resource for all who are concerned...
View ArticleUPDATE! Ebola: Bats Prematurely Blamed
In Merlin Tuttle’s blogged report titled, Ebola: Bats Prematurely Blamed, released on January 15, 2016, he summarized available knowledge of Ebola related to bats. He reported a prime example of...
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BAT FLASH!!
B A T F L A S H! Bats need our help! We are calling you to action! We have emailed Merlin’s response below to the editor of Science Alert. We are asking you to add your voice. Please contact Science...
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Bat Book Makes Amazon’s Top 10 List for October
Merlin’s new book, The Secret Lives of Bats: My Adventures with the World’s Most Misunderstood Mammals, as reviewed by 12 editors, received a 5-star rating and was picked by Amazon as one of its 10...
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“Bat Girl” takes Grand Champion in Science Fair!
If you’ve been following my blogs (Letters from a Young Bat Scientist–No. 1 though No. 8) about rising star in the world of bat conservation, Alexis Valentine aka “Bat Girl,” then you know this amazing...
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